Design and home furnishing magazines are full of advice on downsizing or for simply streamlining your lifestyle if you are not ready to move to smaller quarters. If you are near retirement, you will do your children a favor by ridding the house of clutter that will be meaningless to them. For example, throw … Read more
Even if your dining room is more like a breakfast nook—or more like a card table smushed up against the wall—you’ll need to find a way to light it unless you like eating in the dark. True, you could just screw a bulb into the ceiling and call it a day, but what would be the fun … Read more
When it’s time to update your kitchen appliances, $5,000 can go a long way. At this price range, you can splurge a bit on your large appliances and get a few more extras on your products. With $5,000, you can peruse French-door or door-in-a-door refrigerators, slide-in ranges, induction cooktops, and dishwashers with roomy racks and … Read more
IRVINE, CA–(Marketwired – June 26, 2017) – Bosch will donate high-quality home appliances for up to 45 beautifully designed St. Jude Dream Home houses across the country The St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway gives local residents the opportunity to help support the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital by purchasing tickets for the chance to win … Read more
AT A ROUTINE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIG at a Viking site in Denmark, archaeologists stumbled upon a feature they weren’t expecting: a bathroom. Middens and other waste pits are common features of archaeological digs. But students of Denmark’s Viking age tend to think that countryside settlements like this one didn’t have dedicated bathrooms for humans. Instead, they … Read more
Acare home is raided by the Border Agency. Staff are removed as they have no identity documents and are working long hours in poor conditions. The home, it turns out, is being used as a conduit for trafficking women into the UK. This is a true story, told recently by a social care professional to … Read more
One of the dumbest political mistakes in the modern era Alex Brandon / Axios President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey is rightly seen as a terrific legal blunder: He undercut an investigation that might have shown he never colluded with the Russians, and spawned one that could result in obstruction of justice … Read more
Spring is not a moment in the garden but a sequence, a gentle unfurling of plant life that grows fuller by the day at a tempo that is almost out of sync with human perception. One minute perennials are peeping out of the earth, and the next the soil is covered by fully grown greenery. … Read more
Step out of winter and into a tropical paradise this winter. RHS Wisley’s Glasshouse is the temporary home, until March 5th, for more than 6,000 free-flying exotic butterflies that are content to flit around the rainforest atmosphere of the Tropical Zone. You will see more than 50 different butterfly species from the tropical world and … Read more
Need to call your friend while you put in your contacts? A company called Viio has created mirrors that let you chat through your mirror. Viio equips its mirrors with Bluetooth, so you can connect them wirelessly to your mobile device, tablet or computer. The built-in microphone and speakers let you make phone calls or … Read more